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Old 05-08-2008, 12:23 AM
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Originally Posted by MnGirl
Who told you that? In Minnesota we had problems all the time. Not only with snow storms, but snow collecting on the dish.
My neighbor has dish and he had problems all summer long last year because of storms. Not only ours, but weather as far away as Atlanta.
I stayed with cable because of all the problems I had in Minnesota.
You have a dish?
Snow! meaning not frozen water vapor, I'm talking "snow" which is an electronic term for noise levels attached to an analog signal. Remember a "snowy" screen on your TV? That snow was caused by a poor signal to noise ratio which in turn was caused by the distance from your antenna to the TV tower and the quality of your antenna. Satellite signals do NOT exhibit a snowy signal, HOWEVER yes satellite dishes are subject to signal loss because of physical snow ( frozen water vapor) in the bowl of the dish.
Tomorrow when we begin TV reception 101 we will show you snow and "snow"
Jus sayin
Handie :joke:
PS: yes I've had a dish since 1995 and proir to that I installed 10 ft diameter dishes
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